Who watches the watchmen?

The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

The arrows are from her dowry.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

I doubted myself for a long time... I'm comfortable not using my vision. I weave around my problems.

As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.